Some small puzzles that can be asked in interviews!

1. You have 2 cubes which has to be used for displaying dates of the month. so u have to write the numbers on the faces of those 2 cubes.how will u write the numbers? note u have to display the date '1' as '01','2' as '02' ect.

2. You have a rectangular piece of paper and a rectangle part of any size is cut from any part of it. now, u have to divide the remaining part of the paper into 2 equal halves by drawing a single straight line. what is that line?

3. There are two people A and B standing on opposite banks of a river. There is one boat in the river. A has a box, a lock, its key and a diamond. B has a lock, its key and a box. A has to send the diamond to B. Only a locked box can be sent by the boat. If anything else is sent the boatman is going to steal it. How can A send the diamond to B? None of them breaks any lock.

4. There are 3 closed boxes in front of u, one with 100 red balls second with 100 blue balls and the third with 50 red and 50 blue balls. all the 3 boxes are labelled wrong. which box will u open and how many balls will u take out to label them correct?

5. U have 2 wires that will burn for 1 hr each not at an uniform rate. like it may take 1 min for first unit length & 15 mins for next unit length. Now u have to measure 45 mins using these. how will u do it?

6. A spider is at a vertex of a closed cuboid of dimension 5 * 8 * 12 units. It has to go to the opposite vertex. what is the minimum distance it has to travel?

*new* 7. There is a right angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 10 units. The perpendicular height drawn from the right angled vertex is 6 units. What is the area of this triangle?

*new* 8. You are given a cylindrical glass tumbler which is almost half filled with water. Without any measurement instruments, how will you exactly predict if the glass is exactly half full or not?

*new* 9. Six of us stay in our house and we use to manage the home expenditures in the following way - We have an expenditure sheet where there is one column per person. whenever someone spends something that is common for all, he needs to enter the amount under his name in the expenditure sheet. At the end of the month, sum of amount spent by all the people added together would be the total expenditure. This total amount divided by six should be each person's contribution. Now whoever did not completely contribute his part would give money to person who has spent more. Last week four of us went to a movie and one person spent rs600 that day. This 600 needs to be shared only by four people who went for the movie. The question is how much amount should be written under each person's column, so that the month end calculation remains the same.

*new* 10. You have to construct a circuit that has 1 battery, 3 light bulbs and 3 switches, such that, Switch 1 turns on/off light 1, switch 2 turns on/off light 2 and switch 3 turns on/off all the lights. (Only one switch will be turned on at a time)

More to be added!